Well this is not very "profound", but I always liked that episode. I enjoyed the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew spirit of the episode.

Cool idea to revisit each episode 100 years after the date it occurred. I think I may have to break out the DVD set and watch each episode during its respective month. That's a neat way to revisit the series.

Fun idea. We can cover Indy's adventures on a month-to-month basis...a full century later!

An interesting aspect of "Princeton, February 1916" is the whole plot concerning an electric car. Fairly commonplace nowadays but when the show aired in 1992, they were still experimental/concept cars. Comparing the significant leaps in progress made since 1916, I often wonder if they're greater or less than than the changes between 1816-1916. How different is today's world from Young Indy's as his was to Napoleonic times? Which century jumped further in terms of technology, ideology, fashion, etc.?

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In the bridging segment of "Spring Break Adventure", Indy is reading an edition of "The New York Times". Using the zoom function on my DVD player, the date on the front page can just barely be seen and it's: Saturday, February 26, 1916.

Googling a 1916 calendar confirms the date's accuracy. This year, the 26th will be a Friday…just a day apart.

I just realized that Joe Johnston directed this episode! That's really cool. I actually view him as one of the most underrated directors out there. No, he has not directed any masterpieces, but every one of his films has at least been a fun viewing experience (except The Pagemaster).

It's been mentioned before (by me?) but the episode is a partial homage to Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout by "Victor Appleton", the pseudonym for the stable of writers Edward Stratemeyer keeps, seen briefly in the episode. Although actually published in 1910, perhaps in the Indyverse's timeline the book came out a few years later.

It's been mentioned before (by me?) but the episode is a partial homage to Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout by "Victor Appleton", the pseudonym for the stable of writers Edward Stratemeyer keeps, seen briefly in the episode. Although actually published in 1910, perhaps in the Indyverse's timeline the book came out a few years later.

Although actually published in 1910, perhaps in the Indyverse's timeline the book came out a few years later.

Nah, it's fine. Nothing in the dialogue indicates a new, recent book so I don't see any timeline conflict with that.

A funny item is the wall painting at 'Williams Brothers Garage'. Nice period detail but an advertisement for Buzzell Electric Works says, "since 1909". Yeah, it's February 1916 so they've been in business for a full 7 years? Woo-hoo! What a thing for the company to promote!

Tash, that comic was made available here at The Raven 8 years ago (courtesy of Rob Dangerous) and the links still work!Page 1Page 2

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Couple more thoughts:

February 1916: The more I learn about Edison, the more I find out what a jerk he was. The latest ugliness being his way of eliminating motion picture competition. He would hire thugs to go around the New Jersey/New York area and smash any movie camera equipment that belonged to someone else. What an A-hole!

March 1916: Before "Curse of the Jackal" aired, I had only a mild interest in the Mexican Revolution era but the show really turned me on to it. Soon after, I began to record any TV programme about 'Pancho' Villa and chronologically compiled all of the actual, real film footage onto 1 tape. It's amazing how much there is.

Anecdotes include how Villa would get his men to re-ride a battle for the camera while dead bodies still laid on the ground. Another is the cameraman being told to film an execution but, long before the guns were even fired, his film ran out. He kept turning the crank for fear of being shot, himself!

The documentary on the Young Indy DVD testifies to the abundance of existing material so that brief appearance of the cameramen filming the train in the actual episode is a nice, little touch.

Today, April 24, marks the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion depicted in the "Ireland, April 1916" episode of YIJC.

On a related note, for those interested in WWI, there is a fantastic You Tube series running right now called "The Great War" which revisits WWI exactly 100 years ago each and every week. In a few months, many of the events and locations shown in YIJC will surely be covered. And a cool side note - the host of the series is named Indy.

It's been mentioned before (by me?) but the episode is a partial homage to Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout by "Victor Appleton", the pseudonym for the stable of writers Edward Stratemeyer keeps, seen briefly in the episode. Although actually published in 1910, perhaps in the Indyverse's timeline the book came out a few years later.

At the dinner party, Indy mentions the book to Thompson and says that it came out about five years ago. And the book he's reading at the beginning isn't new, it looks like it's been well-read. No need to retcon here.

I dare say, Indy would be escaping from Dusterstadt by now ... poor DeGaulle would be there till the end of the war! On a side note, DeGaulle was actually imprisoned in a maximum security fortress called Ingolstadt, where he made 5 unsuccessful escape attempts. It was indeed, meant to hold indefinitely, uprising allied officers. Anbody know why Lucas and company decided to change the name?

FlyingAce is quite right! I meant 99 years ago. Don't worry about correcting my mistake, Ace. It's something I do all the time to other people so if I ever do make an error, I WANT it to be pointed out.

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Anyway, we know that Indy's leave of 2 weeks in Paris was cut short and he was sent back to the front lines. So right about now, 100 years ago, he must have been on his way from Verdun to East Africa, probably passing through the Suez at this point in time.

Speaking of Indiana Jones and Mata Hari, does anyone know if there is a way to read James Luceno's novelization of the Mata Hari episode online somewhere? I would love to read it without having to go through the trouble of getting my hands on an old copy of the novelization. Perhaps there is a pdf upload of the novel somewhere.